And so we reach the end of another coding-year, and while many of us are plotting our holiday hacks and offline AR (actual reality) adventures, there are a few folks who still have to launch features over the break.
Please don’t.
Ok, so now you’re charging ahead anyway, without your whole team on board, it’s a period of heightened risk and it’s important that you approach production changes with an appropriate level of caution and care.
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“Initial commit” is so uninspiring yet we’ve all committed it somewhere!
I’ve recently found myself creating a noticeable handful of repositories for various projects and it got me thinking: whats in a first commit? It’s the commit that hangs around like a bad smell for years after you make it. It appears in github in that placeholder .gitignore, or in that tiny file that never gets changed. So why think about it?
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